Al Sharpton
American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host
Lived from: 1954 -
Category: Politics | Theologians and clergy Country: 
United States
Born: 3 october 1954
Quotes 21 till 30 of 30.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
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My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
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The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
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We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
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Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.
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